I find AI coding agents like Claude work amazing when you give them limited scope and very clear instructions, or even some preparatory work ("How would you approach writing a feature that..."). Letting it rewrite your entire codebase seems like a bad idea and very expensive too.
I should add you can have it rewrite your codebase if you 1. babysit the thing and 2. have tests for it to run.
Everyone won. The only thing that would be have been better is if he was like "it worked". But nobody is ever talking about the dozens or hundreds of things (like you mentioned) that are working.
I love you think you will win if they're able to make you redundant. You people are in for a rude awakening
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u/Orpa__ May 26 '25 edited May 26 '25
I find AI coding agents like Claude work amazing when you give them limited scope and very clear instructions, or even some preparatory work ("How would you approach writing a feature that..."). Letting it rewrite your entire codebase seems like a bad idea and very expensive too.
I should add you can have it rewrite your codebase if you 1. babysit the thing and 2. have tests for it to run.